Welcome to the 7th Graders Research Paper I-Search: 12 Steps to Achieve your research
1. Intro to Research / Topic Selection 2. Find books & check out 3. Why I Chose This Topic (Journal) 4. What I Know About My Topic (Journal) / Making Connections a. To self b. To text c. To world 5. My Questions / The Importance of Asking Big Questions 6. How to Skim a Book / Finding Answers a. Convergent: found in text / yes-no answers / specific answer b. Divergent: many possible answers 7. Peer Feedback: Trade Questions with a partner and ask each other questions 8. Demonstration on using Databases 9. Students use Databases to find and print information 10. Highlighting & Notetaking Modeling a. Determine importance b. Determine main idea c. Summarizing d. Draw conclusions Notetaking… Students Skim & Scan and read for information 11. Citation Machine Lesson and begin to Type (3 days)
Type finishing touches and Turn In 12. What I Learned (writing piece: This is a great summarizing piece)
Welcome to the 7th Graders Research Paper I-Search: 12 Steps to Achieve your research
1. Intro to Research / Topic Selection
2. Find books & check out
3. Why I Chose This Topic (Journal)
4. What I Know About My Topic (Journal) / Making Connections
a. To self
b. To text
c. To world
5. My Questions / The Importance of Asking Big Questions
6. How to Skim a Book / Finding Answers
a. Convergent: found in text / yes-no answers / specific answer
b. Divergent: many possible answers
7. Peer Feedback: Trade Questions with a partner and ask each other questions
8. Demonstration on using Databases
9. Students use Databases to find and print information
10. Highlighting & Notetaking Modeling
a. Determine importance
b. Determine main idea
c. Summarizing
d. Draw conclusions
Notetaking… Students Skim & Scan and read for information
11. Citation Machine Lesson and begin to Type (3 days)
Type finishing touches and Turn In
12. What I Learned (writing piece: This is a great summarizing piece)